ROHN, WILLIAM - The land of Cass County is well cultivated owing to the progressiveness of some of the farmers, who exert themselves to bring it into a high state of productiveness. One of these men, who is recognized as a very successful agriculturist, is William Rohn, farmer and stock raiser of township 18, range 12, section 21. He was born in the county, September 27, 1854, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Lammeer) Rohn, natives of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where the father was born in 1803, and the mother in 1804. Henry Rohn came from Germany to the United States in 1834, and was married at St. Louis, Mo., to Elizabeth Lammeer, who had come to this county in the same year. They then made their way to Beardstown where Henry Rohn worked in the packing house for one year, then took up farming and continued to follow that calling the remainder of his life on land he had entered from the government.

William Rohn attended the district schools of Cass County, and spent his boyhood in farming, hunting and fishing, holding the record for duck shooting in this vicinity, having killed 165 of then in three hours during the spring of 1878. His farm comprises eighty acres of land, and he also has a camp which he maintains for the accommodation of hunters and fishermen that is located between some lakes and the Illinois River, and during the season it is well patronized. Mr. Rohn's genial manner and jolly laugh make him a pleasant host and companion and he is very popular among the lovers of sport throughout the state and is one of the best known men in Cass County. A Republican, he confines his activities in politics to voting. The German Methodist church holds his membership.

Mr. Rohn was first married in Cass County, in 1876, to Augusta Machau and they had five children, three of whom are living: Edward, Anna C. and Fred H. On January 21, 1892, he married (second) Anna C. Mann, and they had four children, three of whom are living: Ethel M., Howard J. and Myrtle B. All of these children were born in Cass County.